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On 21 September 1668, the Royal Charter of 27 March 1668, led to the transfer of Bombay from Charles II to the English East India Company for an annual rent of £10. [2] Sir George Oxenden became the first Governor of Bombay under the regime of the English East India Company.
1764 map of Bombay made by French cartographer J.M. Bellin. Between 1661-1885, Bombay India was under British rule. Bombay had just come out of Portuguese rule and the power instead of being transferred back to the people of Bombay, was transferred to the leaders of Britain.
Feb 6, 2024 · Yes, on 21 September 1668, the Royal Charter of 27 March 1668 led to the transfer of Bombay from Charles II to the English East India Company. The company acquired Bombay for an annual rent of £10, and Sir George Oxenden became the first Governor of Bombay under the regime of the English East India Company.
- The Mughals
- England’s Entry Into India
- Early Dutch Dispersal Into India
- The East India Companies Spread Out from Surat
- French Competition
- Voc Loses Steam
- The EEIC Takes Full Control of India
- Traders to Rulers
- End of EEIC Rule of India
By 1600, the Muslim Mughals under Akbar the Great (r. 1556–1605) ruled most of India. The Mughals had arrived on the subcontinent about the same time as the Portuguese. Akbar was a ‘workaholic’ who seldom slept more than three hours a night and personally oversaw the administration of his vast country. He built his empireby conciliating conquered r...
The first expedition of the English East India Company (EEIC) to India was led by William Hawkyns, who landed the Hector at Surat on 24 August 1608. Hawkyns proceeded to emperor Jahangir’s court at Agra, where he hoped to secure a trading agreement. This took some time, as the emperor so greatly enjoyed the company of Hawkyns that he detained him f...
The first Dutch merchant sent to India by the Dutch East India Company(Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie; VOC) was David Van Deynssen who was sent to Surat in 1606. Unfortunately, his mission turned out to be a failure, as the Portuguese succeeded in setting the Mughal authorities against him. After being tortured by the latter and repeatedly threa...
Surat held most of the EEIC’s early attention in India, but its importance declined dramatically when a protracted drought in the 1630s affected all of western India. As an eyewitness described: Surat did manage to recover, but the EEIC gradually shifted its focus towards the west coast of India to Bombay, then Madras on the eastern Coromandel Coas...
In 1668, the first French factory was established at Surat in India, under the auspices of the Compagnie Française des Indes Orientales established by Jean-Baptiste Colbert, finance minister to King Louis XIV of France (r. 1643-1715). In 1674, Pondicherry (Puducherry), lying about 85 miles (137 kilometres) south of and not far from the EEIC’s tradi...
The overall profits of the VOC peaked in the 1670s and then began a slow, gradual decline. It was forced to leave Formosa in 1663 and as a result it could no longer trade Chinese silk for the Japanese gold that they had traditionally used to acquire Asian goods. The Dutch tried to focus on the Bengal silk market, but the profits were not nearly as ...
In 1686, the EEIC felt the time was right to embark on a direct war with the now fading Mughal Empire to obtain broad trading privileges across the entire continent and more specifically to get permission to build a fortress in Bengal. A fortress in Bengal was seen as a critical step to protect the company’s burgeoning trade there from the Dutch an...
As the 18th century progressed and the VOC were forced to abandon India, the time was right for the EEIC to carry its invasion of India to its final conclusion and make the transition from merchants to rulers. The company’s shift to ruler began in Bengal in 1756 when after decades of benevolent rule by the Mughals, Siraj ud-Daulah became the nawab ...
The EEIC ruled India until 1858, when the Indian Rebellion led the British government to take over control of the country. At about the same time as the Opium Wars, the company began witnessing a rapidly increasing amount of insurgence in its Indian territories. The company’s conquestof the subcontinent during the 18th and early 19th centuries had ...
Jun 22, 2023 · The Bombay Presidency was established by the British East India Company in 1668. Bombay (now Mumbai) was acquired as part of the dowry of Catherine of Braganza, the Portuguese princess who married King Charles II of England.
The three reached Bombay and on 23rd September 1668 the English officer, Capt. Henry Gary formally transferred the island along with its live and dead stock, arms, ammunition, men, and cash amounting to 4879pounds, 7 shillings and 6 pence.
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The People of India was not the only such work of ethnographic photography. Other photographic works that sought to reinforce certain ideas include Oriental Races and Tribes: Residents and Visitors of Bombay (1863, 1866); the images in William Elliot Marshall’s A Phrenologist Amongst the Todas (1873); and Maurice Vidal Portman’s images of ...
